Switching to the Viceroy Hotel
Los Cabos Travelog #12
Viceroy San Jose del Cabo - Mon, 6 May 2024, 4pm
Today around lunchtime we headed back to San Jose... but not the one near our home. Now we're in San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, MX instead of San Jose, California, US. This is officially the club part of our club trip. The next 3 nights at the Viceroy hotel in San Jose BCS are being paid for by my company.
In a previous blog I wrote about what I saw as the difference between 4.5 and 5 star hotels based on the distinctive service at the Waldorf Astoria. By that rubric the Viceroy is at hest a 4.5 star hotel. The rooms may be nice- though we wouldn't know, because we haven't been assigned a room yet- but other than that it's just a normal, large hotel. When we arrived the lobby was busy with people checking in, and we had to wait. At the Waldorf there was never a line, for anything. There were always enough staff on hand to greet us immediately.
Like I said, our room wasn't ready yet when we arrived, so we left our luggage with the bellmen and grabbed our beach bag to head down to the pools and the beach. The pools and beach are out across this... water court, I'll call it for lack of a better term... and then down a few levels. Descending those levels on ramps feels like leaving the Ziggurat.
We staked out a couple of beach chairs and put on suntan lotion. We headed first for the surf. That was mostly a no-go as the waves were pounding too hard to want to go in deeper than our knees. And Brr, the water was cold! Oh, and the sand was rough, too. It hurt my bare feet to walk across it. We retreated to our beach chairs and ordered lunch from the beach-side cafe.
Lunch was... edible. I.e;, it was bland Mexican food. And overpriced, though not $133-for-two-people bougie.
After eating we hung out at the pool for a while. Many of my colleagues were there. Some of them were already pretty well liquored up even at 2pm. Ah, day-drinking. It's a younger man's sport.
Link: watch video on YouTube
Around 3 we headed back up to the lobby to see if our room was ready yet. It was. They just hadn't texted me like they said they would. We went to the room, started to unpack, then thought to make walk-through videos like the one above. 😅 And it's not just for showing off. Making and narrating a short video like this is a great way to remember things months or years later. I'm trying to remember to make short videos more often of cool places I go.
Viceroy San Jose del Cabo - Mon, 6 May 2024, 4pm
Today around lunchtime we headed back to San Jose... but not the one near our home. Now we're in San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, MX instead of San Jose, California, US. This is officially the club part of our club trip. The next 3 nights at the Viceroy hotel in San Jose BCS are being paid for by my company.
In a previous blog I wrote about what I saw as the difference between 4.5 and 5 star hotels based on the distinctive service at the Waldorf Astoria. By that rubric the Viceroy is at hest a 4.5 star hotel. The rooms may be nice- though we wouldn't know, because we haven't been assigned a room yet- but other than that it's just a normal, large hotel. When we arrived the lobby was busy with people checking in, and we had to wait. At the Waldorf there was never a line, for anything. There were always enough staff on hand to greet us immediately.
Like I said, our room wasn't ready yet when we arrived, so we left our luggage with the bellmen and grabbed our beach bag to head down to the pools and the beach. The pools and beach are out across this... water court, I'll call it for lack of a better term... and then down a few levels. Descending those levels on ramps feels like leaving the Ziggurat.
We staked out a couple of beach chairs and put on suntan lotion. We headed first for the surf. That was mostly a no-go as the waves were pounding too hard to want to go in deeper than our knees. And Brr, the water was cold! Oh, and the sand was rough, too. It hurt my bare feet to walk across it. We retreated to our beach chairs and ordered lunch from the beach-side cafe.
Lunch was... edible. I.e;, it was bland Mexican food. And overpriced, though not $133-for-two-people bougie.
After eating we hung out at the pool for a while. Many of my colleagues were there. Some of them were already pretty well liquored up even at 2pm. Ah, day-drinking. It's a younger man's sport.
Click to viewLink: watch video on YouTube
Around 3 we headed back up to the lobby to see if our room was ready yet. It was. They just hadn't texted me like they said they would. We went to the room, started to unpack, then thought to make walk-through videos like the one above. 😅 And it's not just for showing off. Making and narrating a short video like this is a great way to remember things months or years later. I'm trying to remember to make short videos more often of cool places I go.